Winter 2021 Class Schedule
Course | Title | Instructor | Lecture | Discussion |
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AMER_ST 301-2-20 | Peoples, Nations, and Worlds (Winter) | Michael Allen | MW 2 - 3:20 PM | |
AMER_ST 301-2-20 Peoples, Nations, and Worlds (Winter) | ||||
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AMER_ST 310-0-10 | Bad News | Larry Stuelpnagel | TTh 12:30 - 1:50PM | |
AMER_ST 310-0-10 Bad NewsCo-listed with Political Science 390-0-26 Bad news is what Americans are experiencing as a result of corporate media mergers that took place in the closing years of the last century. Today major companies control much of what people read, hear, and see. As many firms passed from largely family-owned to publicly traded companies, the pressure for profit from Wall Street has led to cutbacks in the size of news divisions and a change in news story values that have "softened" the types of news that people see on television. This course will begin with an examination of the monetary forces that are driving the news industry away from its primary mission of information. Critics, of whom the professor is one, contend that the drive for increasing profits is coming at the expense of both the quality and quantity of news that appear on television and radio, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. The ever-diminishing number of news providers is also threatening democracy by limiting the number of voices that can be heard in our society. | ||||
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AMER_ST 310-0-20 | Passing | Nicolette Bruner | W 11 AM - 12:20 PM | |
AMER_ST 310-0-20 PassingCo-listed with African American Studies 380-0-20 In this course, we explore how people move within and between categories of race and gender in the United States, with particular attention to the role of law in the formation and policing of those boundaries. In addition to conventional legal texts, we will draw upon literature, social theory, and cultural ephemera. Readings will include work by Nella Larsen, Charles Chesnutt, Allyson Hobbs, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Talia Mae Bettcher, Toby Beauchamp, and others. | ||||
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AMER_ST 310-0-30 | Transnational Asian American Activism | Ida Yalzadeh | MW 2 - 3:20 PM | |
AMER_ST 310-0-30 Transnational Asian American ActivismCombined with Asian American Studies 320-0-1 Both Asian American and Asian immigrant activism in the United States has been critical to resistance against systems of racial oppression in this country and its transnational, imperial connections abroad. This course is meant to provide students with a greater understanding of Asian diasporas in the United States and strategies of activist resistance from the beginning of the twentieth century into the present. Special attention will be paid to the role of student activism—both Asian American and Asian immigrant—as well as the role of historical and ethnographic methodologies in studying such paths for change. As a final project, students will create their own digital zines that discuss some aspect of Asian American activism that is rooted in scholarship but still accessible to the larger community. | ||||
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AMER_ST 390-2-21 | Senior Seminar 2 (Winter) | Shana Bernstein | W 2 - 4:50 PM | |
AMER_ST 390-2-21 Senior Seminar 2 (Winter) | ||||
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